Senior High brings home championship in Radio Broadcasting, Best Infomercial in SPEAK UP! Competition

Senior highschool students of the University of Mindanao took home awards and cash prizes as champion for Best in Radio Broadcasting- Script Writing and Best in Informercial in the 7th Region-Wide Inter-High School Speak Up! Competition on March 2 by the University of the Philippines – Mindanao.

Facilitated by the UP-Min BA Communication and Media Arts Program Communicator’s Guild, the 2019 SPEAK UP! aims to ‘highlight the role of the youth in discussing issues about health and empowering communities through promoting participatory Health Communication.’

The UM SHS team also won the following individual awards:

Best anchor – David John Garcia

Best local news presenter – Christian Lawas

Best international news presenter – Francine Desabille

Photo courtesy of UP-Min’s CommGuild.

The CommGuild added the Radio Broadcasting-Script Writing Contest was a returning addition to their roster of banner contests, which include the Oratorical and Extemporaneous Speaking Contest, as it was last conducted in 2017.

The same UM SHS team were also awarded Best in Infomercial last year during the the Department of Education’s Division Schools Press Conference event.